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The fish is looking much better today! Swimming upright and the bump is smaller. I can’t believe this!

Oh wow thanks ok I put it in a little quarantine square inside to keep it safe. It’s struggling! Sigh tbd. I like the Aqua Natural river sand, so I’ll start the change this week.

Thank you, do you mean you use those food safety sheets for changing my gravel to sand? How many inches of sand for a 10g? I can get those today and start on it. I think it will be too big of a chance to take to remove it all at once and hang on the back. I can do 1/4 of my tank every 3 weeks...

I was JUST wondering how to switch my gravel over to sand… I have 3” of gravel should I take out 1.5” then add 1.5” sand?

Thank you! My LAS said they think it’s a rock too. I’ll add sand…

Help! I have 3 Amazonian puffers and one is resting on the bottom of the tank today and won’t eat. There’s nothing else in the tank with them. They eat ramshorns and pellets. Belly looks wierdly shaped. It seems a little wobbly. What should I do? Update: it ate bloodworms I put in front of it

3 mystery, 1 ramshorn

Should I take the snails out with the salt?!

I’ve been cleaning it a lot lately, vacuuming and cleaning the filter in tank water. I have not cleaned the glass well or added salt lately so will add that to my list. Thank you!

Thank you I’ll do all of that. My ammonia nitrates and nitrites are zero. Can I try quarantining the one spinning and give it salt, kanaplex, or metronidazole for a couple days?

Also, when it tries swimming again it can't get it's balance back. It swims all wobbly and loopy and spinning, like it's sick :(

Hi all! I’ve had 10 baby panda cories since July. Recently I noticed one of them doing spinning and flipping that seems like it’s out of control of its body, it lasts 10 seconds or so and then it flops down breathing heavy and almost passed out. Is this a seizure? I think fish can have those...

Ya I’ve been doing small biomedia, water, substrate cleanings. Does anyone think I should preemptively treat the whole tank with Metronidazole, Kavaplex, epsom or aquarium salt outside of this??? Trying to get ahead of more issues for Butters :/

Thanks I am working on cleaning up the filter and substrate for sure… good advice. Crossing my fingers it passes and no new fish for me!

Thanks for the information but I myself have not gotten sick. I am just wondering what the best treatment would be the next time I see a fish with the same symptoms. Metronidazole? Kavaplex? Epsom? Do angelfish get fish TB? I’m not sure how to start all the way over on this tank (with...

She passed away- I’m so upset. I’d still like advice in case Butters the angel gets sick like this too, he’s in the same tank…

I've had 2 sick bettas for 3 days and have had them both in a small hospital tank treating with metronidazole. Both didn't have pinecone scales, but today one died and the living one has pinecone scales. I put her in an epsom salt bath for 10 minutes then back into her hospital tank...

Thank you! I have pennywort floating along with foxtail, anubius, amazon sword, tiger lotus and some moss. There is a very large drift wood, but I had boiled it for a week and soaked it. I talked to my local store today and they say: hold the water up in a clear container to a white wall in...

Are "buffering salts" what are in the phosphorus packets? Similar to regular aquarium salts? I'll start doing this with my water changes, I had been sometimes already. That makes sense, thank you!

Yes I add enough of the buffer when I do water changes in order to keep new water pH around 6.8. I never add sink water without first lowering pH. The times pH has fluctuated is during an ammonia or nitrite spike- new fish or when I removed the original cartridge filter to put it on my new 10g...

I think so when doing water changes, due to my sink water being 8+ pH. Otherwise, it has fluctuated sometimes since I started in July when I’ve added new fish/changed filter type and had ammonia or nitrite spikes. What’s a good product to use without (as much/any) phosphates to lower pH...

This is what I’ve been told to use by 2 local stores for lowering pH, along with the Seachem Alkaline Buffer to raise pH. Which do you suggest instead? My hanging filter only has biomedia rocks/gravel- it doesn’t have an activated carbon filter :(

Ok thanks for the information about about chemical filter media. Also, good to know changing the lighting and food take a long time to make a difference. I'll continue water changes, and I'll work on having it tested for phosphates- I think it’s phosphate because when I do water changes I use...

Idk what kind of algae. I have a 2" pleco, altho I don't see algae on surfaces, just a greenish hue in the water column. I cut out fish flakes and am feeding catfish wafers to pandas, algae wafer to pleco, and bloodworms to bettas and angel. Also, cut down light to 5-7 hrs daily. So I guess...

Here trying to find out what the consensus is on algae bloom. My local store says algae isn’t bad for the fish it just looks bad to us. They suggested UV light to clear it along with daily Flourish excel and weekly Flourish. I read that UV lights can kill too much bacteria, kill fish etc so am...